happen in the messaging, those fundamentals emerge, you can pick years like that? do you not see that, or you don t know? i have no idea. i have been i m trying not to obsess over the polling and stuff like that, because the truth of the matter is we really don t know what s going to happen. and it s not productive. i m with carville on that. the important thing is to try and make the world move in the direction you want, not to try and obsess over predictions that are what s going to happen is going to happen, and not a good use of your time or mine. yeah. well, it s striking, you are decorated for your brilliance and intellectually humble. paul krugman, always a great chat. appreciate him on the big night. coming up, obama on the turnout. two big guests getting into why this year is different. and the doj is stepping in
usual, and that s true in a variety of ways. sadly because of the increased violent threats and menacing that have been documented. now the feds are expanding lye monitoring of polling places with that rising set of threats, including specific threats identified against election officials. doj is going to roll out this plan in 24 state testimonies idea is to ensure compliance with voting rights law. missouri is one of the states we re seeing republicans spar with the feds. they re trying to block them. they say this would bully local election workers. the move by the doj comes amid the safety concerns and threats and intelligence law enforcement amgss are on top of it. one doj official tells nbc they re as prepared as they can be, but others are on edge. arizona officials faced 140 threats this summer alone. that absolutes emails and direct threats about killing people who are doing the nonpartisan work
good afternoon to you. what about this executive privilege claim? how would you prove it? pr where does that where does that go? chris: this is not new. they set up teams when this is a question whether information is privileged in some way, executive privilege, not as common, but usually attorney/client privilege, so the tank team, supposedly an independent group at the department of justice that will go through each document and segregate out those that are privileged. the problem is it s all one doj. experience with this before. second problem is it takes forever, and we are not going to learn anything new if a tank team takes over. and we searched congressman
culmination of the stunning episode where trump purportedly tries to oust rosen since he won t do his bidding and install jeffrey clark. this was the lone doj official who had demonstrated a willingness to pursue trump s conspiracy theories. trump does stand down. why? because a group of doj officials threatened to resign if he goes through with it. think nixon, if you will. it prompts a sigh of relief from one doj official who tells his colleagues, the cause of justice won. after all these efforts behind the scenes basically to topple our democracy failed, brings us to january 6. president goes to the elipse. we know what happens after that. senator graham describes it, they could have killed all of us. at nearly 4:00 in the morning, congress does count the electoral college votes. they certify joe biden as the winner and democracy survives. as you can see, it nearly
well, congressman, as just alluded to in your prior question, i can tell you what the actions of the department were no, sir. no, sir. i cannot tell you mr. rosen. consistent with my obligations today about private conversations with the president one way or the other. now, at the time this seemed like a tell. obviously if the answer to that question is no, you just say no. well, now we have a new trove of documents unearthed by the house oversight committee that proved the president did of course repeatedly attempt to pressure the department of justice to overturn the election results. this is an email sent from trump s assistant to incoming acting attorney general rosen an hour before he announced bill barr would be stepping down, in case you re wondering what the point of all this was, with the subject line from potus. it contains talking points and a forensics report about entirely fictitious election fraud in michigan claiming, quote, this is the evidence that do